M. Max Leichtlin (in 1878), that here figured, and more . 
recently in M. Joad’s collection. In both cases it was 
named Schizophragma hydrangeoides (a very different plant). 
Descr. Trunk slender, branching, and as well as the 
branches rooting like the ivy against its support, glabrous 
or hairy; flowering branches free. Leaves two to four 
inches long, broadly ovate-cordate or rounded or elliptic, 
acute or acuminate, finely serrate, membranous, dark green 
above, paler beneath, where the nerves are bearded in the 
axils; petiole slender, one to three inches long, globose or 
pubescent. Cymes eight to ten inches in diameter, flat- 
topped, with slender straggling radiating divaricating 
branches. Outer- or radiating-flowers few, on slender 
pedicels, an inch long or less, one to two inches in 
diameter; sepals three to four, unequal, white, orbicular or 
the smaller ones oblong, entire or obscurely crenate ; disc 
occupied by a minute green cone which is formed of connate 
petals enclosing some imperfect stamens. fertile flowers 
very numerous; calyx-tube turbinate, limb obtusely five- 
lobed; petals connate into a deciduous cone; stamens 
fifteen to twenty, filaments long slender, anthers didymous. 
Styles two or three, very short, recurved, stigma obtuse. 
Capsule small, subglobose.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced view of the whole plant; 2, fertile flower; 3, the connate petals 5 _ 
4, stamens and styles; 5, anther; 6, ovary with three, and 7, with two styles; 
8, petals and stamens of imperfect ray-flowers :—all enlarged. 
